The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 409
Plate LV.—Loggia of the Vatican. 26 386 THE RENAISSANCE. more ideas thronged upon him than he could con-veniently express. Painting, sculpture, and architec-ture were all alike vents lor his varied imagination,it being a mooted point in the Sagrestia Nuova ofSan Lorenzo whether the sculptures were… … Fig. 159.—St. Peters Church, Rome. to adorn the building or the building erected to holdthe sculptures. With him began the use of classic orders withoutregard to the division of stories, thereby relievingthe monotony sequent upon the superimposed ordersin verv large buildings, while ecclesiastical…
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